Chapter 194 - Jiang He’s Mount (1/2)
The fifth of October, ten past five in the afternoon.
The main entrance of Lingzhou City’s Martial Arts Department (MAD).
Ji Dongxu, Duan Tianhe, and Three Blades Lin were standing in a group.
Jiang He, Cheng Dongfeng, and the rest of the six who were heading to Tantra Sect had already left ten minutes ago, and would probably have left the city by now.
“Escort… Escort my foot!”
Three Blades Lin suddenly barked. “I got an easy job for once, and not two days I’m running about for that bunch of brats.”
Ji Dongxu said nothing.
Being an heir of an old martial clan, he had been at odds with Three Blades Lin before—the latter had risen to grandmaster before the Revival of Qi, and to achieve that, he had challenged every dojo alone with one blade, gaining fame for being a peerless rank-six and defeating untold numbers of rank-six elites.
A member of the Ji family happened to be one of the defeated then. His martial heart suffering a blow, he loafed around for most of his life and only started improving again following the Revival of Qi.
Beside them, Duan Tianhe chuckled. “You are truly powerful, Blade King-senpai. As the saying goes, ‘Those who could work more’—with you on escort, they would not face any problems on their journey.”
Heh!
Three Blades Lin shot Duan Tianhe a glare and barked, “I hadn’t seen you for just ten years, and your flattery has improved… Back then… sigh!”
Three Blades Lin could not help breathing a long sigh at that.
He was old acquaintances with Duan Tianhe’s master, but the man had died in a Feral Swarm.
Abruptly, Three Blades Lin’s tone changed and he asked, “By the way, does Minister Wang know about Jiang He’s current power levels? I think they would be very safe with him there… Xiao Duan, why don’t you subtly send Jiang He a message and have him watch over the others?”
“…”
Duan Tianhe scowled and quickly said, “No can do, Blade King-senpai. Absolutely not. I know Jiang He… and though the group is plenty strong, any trouble they encounter would most definitely have to do with Jiang He.”
Three Blades Lin was just mentioning his discontent in passing and was about to follow the group anyway. Still, he appeared taken aback at Duan Tianhe’s reply, and asked, “What?”
In return, Duan Tianhe was about to list the ‘stuff’ that Jiang He had done when he suddenly blinked and looked up ahead.
Jiang He had returned to the crossroads at the end of the street.
“Old Duan, Old Lin!”
After greeting them, Jiang He said, “Me and my memory. I only remembered that I have a mount left in here after leaving the city.”
He entered the MAD, and headed straight to the Superpower Research Department.
Soon, Jiang He came out, riding a huge black panther.
It was up to four times the size of an ordinary big cat, and its body was palpating a rank-seven advanced aura—it was the one that Jiang He had tamed back at Mount Helan.
Jiang He suddenly remembered it, after having left the feline here for research over some time…
After all, the road to the Western Frontier was quite far.
Hyah!
Abruptly slapping the black panther, the creature leapt away and bounded out of the city.
Three Blades Lin: “…”
“A rank-seven Feral?” He exclaimed in shock.
“Hadn’t you heard, Blade King senpai?” Duan Tianhe replied. “Jiang He is also an Awakened with beast-taming powers.”
***
Outside the city.
Zhou Rui frowned in displeasure, saying, “What is Jiang He doing? We’ve already left the city, and now he ran back for his mounts… is he going to ride a horse all the way through the wild forests along the way?”
“It’s a two thousand-mile journey. There’s not telling when he would actually make it if he rode a horse.”
Clearly.
From her perspective, the mount was a horse.